This page will show programs I use for 3d CAD projects, which I expect will mostly be related to my PCB projects that need cases or something to hold them. I'm going for as much free/open-source as I can.
I expect to get most use out of STL file format output for use with resin vat prototyping machines, so I can order cheap builds without paying expensive tooling costs that would void my interest in all this.
OpenSCAD tagged designs. Considering there's a lot of these, only a couple brl-cad ones, and zero freecad items, I'm more likely to use OpenSCAD. Lots.
open-source laptop casework design. Small laptop, but something to look at a complex design. Boo, this site seems dead. Try the wayback machine archives of it, though you can't get to the CAD file downloads from the archive. :( But, luckily, due to the open nature of OpenBook, someone has converted the files to another format for use with BRL-CAD and are available here. I wish it was easier to find, took me two days of googling to stumble onto this location. Since it was a hard find, and I've not seen this anywhere else, here's a local copy of what this site had, both the original Via files as well as the step format versions.
Here are 3d CAD Projects I'm thinking about.
I expect to get most use out of STL file format output for use with resin vat prototyping machines, so I can order cheap builds without paying expensive tooling costs that would void my interest in all this.
Free and open-source design sites
Thingiverse brlcad
Other open hardware sites that may not be CAD but may be electronic, etc. and need reorganized in my mess of pages here.
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